Was ist Faschismus? Haben wir ihn schon? Im Feuilleton tobt gerade eine ziemlich heftig geführte Debatte über den Begriff. Wir empfehlen dazu als vertiefende Lektüre den Band "Was war Faschismustheorie?" hg. v. @mortenpaul.bsky.social. Leseprobe: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/was-war...

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There are some (non ICA) Comm journals offering Registered Reports: - European Journal of Health Comm (@ejhc.bsky.social) - Communication Research Reports - Computational Communication Research (@computationalcommunication.org) - Frontiers in Communication See: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is a welcome and important step to normalize and popularize the use of Registered Reports. Thanks @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social for your leadership, and for the work of the neuroscience and behavioral research editors to test and validate the model at Nature.

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research. go.nature.com/4dP1rwk

wow

Progress. Kudos to the APSR.

The quarto-preprint @quarto.org format now includes "boxes" (boring grayscale callouts likely more appropriate for academic papers vs. default quarto callouts): github.com/mvuorre/quar...

This is foundational paper for everyone working to scale up conversational / qualitative interviewing using LLMs. Gives us a benchmark to distinguish better / worse interviews. Also, careful and thoughtful design and execution.

The impact of AI is already producing a massive flood of content in so many creative industries--I don't know how we are going review or evaluate all this stuff. The peer review system was already at a breaking point. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Why is this guy not a complete pariah?

Austin et al. (2026) advocated for AI in hypothesis-driven scale validation research. In this preprint, led by @wchiggins.bsky.social, we (@malte.the100.ci @bethclarke.bsky.social) sketch out several weaknesses in this paper, and offer recommendations for avoiding them. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/🧵

The choice is not between p-values or effect sizes. They go hand in hand. The p-value is there to keep you from seeing effects where there are none. If that bar is passed, you can treat effects as non-zero, and start to reason about what they mean in practice or for a theory.

For my Horizon Project EDGE I am looking for a senior researcher from October 1st. This is a 3-year position on inequalities and democracy support. All information on the job and application process is here: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2639403?...

In a new (oa) contribution to Party Politics, @cklamm.bsky.social, Simone Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein, @sarahwagner.bsky.social and I study which additional topics parties addressed in their press releases when publishing their position on the COVID-19 pandemic: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

Eine der großen Storys unserer Zeit sind von einzelnen Oligarchen als verlustgeschäft finanzierte Privat-Medien die extrem einflussreich sind, weil sie erfolgreich das simulieren was vielen Politiker*innen wirklich wichtig ist (am rechten Eliten-Stammtisch der Volkszorn larpt gut ankommen)

In München drangen 10-15 Vermummte in eine Unterkunft von bulgarischen Arbeiter_innen ein und griffen die Bewohner_innen mit Messern und Eisenstangen an, vier wurden verletzt. Die Polizei verschwieg die antiziganistische Parole, die einer der Täter rief: www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/muenchen/mit...

Out now & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou *Doing Open Social Science* press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust

👇🏻💡 "People do not give up democracy in a calculating way to gain politically. Instead, they find ways to convince themselves that they are getting their desired policy and democracy. They still act as undemocratically as concluded in the literature; they just do not perceive it that way."

No one talks about how the global epidemiologist population went from 3 billion to 30,000 in the period from 2020 to 2026

Published today & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou *Doing Open Social Science* press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust

Ha! Im „Krumme Straße“-Podcast des Merkur spricht @mortenpaul.bsky.social mit Ekkehard Knörer über Faschismus und sein bald erscheinendes Buch "Was war Faschismustheorie?" Mehr: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/krumme-stras... Zum Buch: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/was-war...

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 “𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲” 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀? A few months back @movadek.bsky.social & I promised we would try to find out. 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗮: tinyurl.com/2add6c2a (1/7)

Leading polisci journal clarifies that it is allowed to deviate from pre-analysis plans but deviations must be transparently disclosed. Good. P.S. This LLM-based service for tracking deviations from PAP is awesome: regcheck.app

Early in my PhD, a colleague finishing his (highly rated) dissertation told me he was stuck on the introduction. After years of hard work, he could no longer find an argument for why any of it actually mattered. This stuck with me ever since. A🧵 about this paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

“Breakaway” journals launched by resigning editorial boards often outperform their “zombie” predecessors that retain the brand but lose the community. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

Thrilled this is out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵 Do we have 2 kinds of beliefs? Some beliefs seem insensitive to evidence and rarely guide behavior, etc. To explain this, several theories divide belief into 2 types. I argue the explanation isn't in the *mind* but in the *world*

We have a new version of this paper out. The headline results are the same—political science must filter results heavily for statistical significance—but we've added many extensions and rewritten much of it in response to feedback (thank you!). A quick thread on updates 👇

This sounds like a message for those who have stuck with Labour rather than for those who deserted them

#NeuesausderForschung Diese Woche u.a. mit Forschung zu unfreier Arbeit, Migration, Autoritarismus und einem Anti-Authoritarian Toolkit:

Part 2. Registered reports remove the incentive for positive data (the original sin of science). Publication is conditional on following peer-reviewed methodology, not having "novel" results or p<0.05. This is Part 2, check out Part 1 if you missed it. #science #research #stem #ethics #podcast

Are you interested in conjoint experiments? Wrote about my new R package *cjdiag* on my website. Feedback welcome! dkarpa.github.io/blog/2026/be...

Noone has ever donated a single dollar to osf or done anything to make it work well (including myself) but everyone finds they have a right to OSF working perfectly for their needs at all times. Who do we expect is making OSF work perfectly for our needs and with what money if not ours?

Many Labs 5 was such a cool project. Authors who argued that a study from the Reproducibility Project: Psychology was 'too different', leading to a null result, could propose their own replication. Mostly null results again. Blaming auxiliaries is easy. Replication is hard.

Do you know a good framework to document data analysis choices? Ex: dropping obs, recoding a var, tuning pars, model + test statistics, etc. Ideally human-readable so people don't have to read my entire codebase. Low-maintenance+ machine-readable for bonus points! #RStats #PyData

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So wichtig. Und das habe ich mich schon länger gefragt: Warum ersetzt die Wissenschaft die Verlage bisher nicht großflächig durch solche öffentliche Infrastruktur?

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Trump's approval rating has declined among those who voted for him: 95% in January 2025 83% in January 2026 78% in April 2026 www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

This was really well done and worth a watch.

Interessante Beobachtung von Stefan Matern dazu, wie Linkspopulismus die Demokratie stabilisieren kann.

My article "Three-Sided Testing to Establish Practical Significance" with @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social is now published in AMPPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Three-sided testing is an improved version of TOST that lets you test for equivalence, superiority and inferiority simultaneously.

Great initiative, sounds a little like @peercomjournal.bsky.social another excellent project which I highly recommend & encourage everyone to support!

Cumulative science at its best.

📢 Exciting news! We will be presenting a poster (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) at #FOR2026Munich - The Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable. Happening from May 4 to 6, 2026, at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

All the more reason to use systematic software designed to tackle this very problem, like RegCheck (regcheck.app)

Journal editors - the status quo on preregistration is not working! You need to check submissions vs. preregistrations before sending articles out for review. *56%* of experiments I reviewed in last year have severe problems with non-disclosure, undocumented deviations, & more - see Claude summary ↓